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The Downey Unified School District, which was accused of harassing and discriminating against a transgender elementary school student in 2011-2012, resolved a complaint Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, according to the agency.

Rev. Sandra Turnbull is pastor at the Glory Tabernacle Christian Center, which is suing the city of Bellflower. The church claims discrimination and civil rights violations.

BELLFLOWER – The Justice Department is reviewing a religious discrimination lawsuit filed against the City of Bellflower by a local church with a large gay and lesbian congregation and lesbian pastor to see if it wants to take any action, the church’s attorney said.

Glory Tabernacle Christian Center claims the city is discriminating against the church by violating the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the 2000 federal law that protects individuals, houses of worship and other religious institutions from discrimination in zoning codes.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division contacted the church’s attorney last week and asked for a copy of the lawsuit and all court documents related to the case.

Rev. Sandra Turnbull is pastor at the Glory Tabernacle Christian Center, which is suing the city of Bellflower. The church claims discrimination and civil rights violations.

BELLFLOWER – Is the city discriminating against a church by illegally using a parking ordinance to prevent it from having regular Sunday worship services?

Glory Tabernacle Christian Center, at the corner of Walnut Street and Bellflower Boulevard in downtown, is required to have 78 parking spaces available 24/7, including indefinite and irrevocable parking agreements with third-party property owners, even though a nearby mortuary and fire museum are exempt from the regulations, said Dan Bane, an attorney with Glory Tabernacle, who filed a lawsuit in May against the city and the five councilmen claiming a pattern of discrimination that has prevented the congregation from having regular worship services at the Walnut Street location.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday gave employment protection to gay and transgender workers in the federal government and its contracting agencies, after being convinced by advocates of what he called the “irrefutable rightness of your cause.”

“America’s federal contracts should not subsidize discrimination against the American people,” Obama said at a signing ceremony from the White House East Room. He said it is unacceptable that being gay is still a firing offense in most places in the United States.